W. G. T'VAULT and J. W. MCCULLY, members of the House from this county, left here on Thursday for Salem. A. M. BERRY, Senator from this county, and DANIEL NEWCOMB, member of the House, will start about Monday next, we learn.

Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, March 12, 1859, page 2


    Bartlett Curl, Anderson Deckard, Dr. Tate, and Asa A. McCully are all running for the legislature, and will, I have no doubt, all be elected.… McCully is a brother of Dr. McCully, of Jackson County, whom the Lane men took into the legislative caucus which nominated Delusion last May, and is as good a Democrat as the Dr., and better than Delusion.
"Letter from Albany," Oregon Statesman, Salem, May 1, 1860, page 2


    EDITOR OREGONIAN--Dear Sir: I received a telegraphic dispatch tonight, of which the following is a copy:
    "DR. MCCULLY--Dear Sir: The telegraph tonight says--Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania have gone Republican by about 20,000 each."
    Hurrah for our side!
"Glorious Election News," Weekly Oregonian, Portland, November 3, 1860, page 2


    ARREST OF BEVER, THE MURDERER OF KLINE.--George Bever, who killed Perry Kline at Willow Springs, Jackson County, on the 9th inst., was arrested here by Marshal Barker last Monday. He was recognized by Dr. McCully, who knew him in Jacksonville. Justice C. N. Terry issued a warrant for his arrest, and when arraigned Bever pleaded guilty. He was committed to the county jail, to await a requisition from Jackson County.
Oregon Statesman, Salem, March 31, 1862, page 2


    FEMALE SCHOOL.--Notice the advertisement of Mrs. J. W. McCully. The parents of misses in this vicinity have been very fortunate in prevailing upon Mrs. McCully to open a school for their girls, as she is an experienced and accomplished teacher.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, June 21, 1862, page 3


    MRS. MCCULLY'S SCHOOL.--The second term of this school will commence on Wednesday next, at the former school rooms. Mrs. McCully is an experienced and accomplished teacher, and those having daughters to educate would do well to patronize her school.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, September 27, 1862, page 3


    ACCIDENT.--Little Mary, daughter of Mrs. J. W. McCully, fell into a well back of P. J. Ryan's new brick building, on Saturday last. The well is about 20 feet deep to the water, and the water in the same four or five feet deep. She was immediately rescued by Mr. Horne, and did not receive any injury worth of mention.Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, December 24, 1862, page 3


    SCHOOL EXHIBITION.--The scholars of Mrs. McCully's school will give an exhibition at the court house, on Tuesday evening next. The exhibition will consist of charades, dialogues, declamations, etc. Parents especially and the public generally are invited to attend. Exercises to commence about half past seven o'clock.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, December 27, 1862, page 3


    SCHOOL EXHIBITION.--The exhibition given by the scholars of Mrs. McCully's school, at the court house, on last evening, was a fine affair. The exercises consisted of singing, compositions, declamations and charades. The singing, conducted under the superintendence of Mr. Dunlap, was spirited, animated and full of harmony. The compositions showed a considerable proficiency in the sciences of grammar and rhetoric, together with some considerable native skill in the art of composition. We hope after this, in similar exhibitions, the young ladies may all have sufficient courage to read their compositions themselves. The salutatory addresses by the little girls were well timed, and spicy. The declamation by Master McCully was animated and patriotic. May the solemn injunctions of the immortal story be heeded! There was a little too much sameness in the charades; but, saving the occasional low and indistinct utterances of some of the young ladies, were well performed. Without detracting anything from the excellences of the others, we give the palm to "Em." After the conclusion of the school exercises, the Rev. M. A. Williams, having been called out, made some well-timed remarks on the importance of a high order of female education.
    The audience was large, and seemed to be highly pleased with the evening's entertainment.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, December 31, 1862, page 3


    By reference to her advertisement in this paper, it will be seen that Mrs. McCully begins a three months' term of school on the 17th of August next.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, July 29, 1863, page 2


    SCHOOL EXHIBITION.--The present term of Mrs. McCully's Female School closes on Friday evening next. On the Saturday evening following she intends giving a school exhibition, at the court house. The parents and friends of the scholars and public generally are invited to attend.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, October 31, 1863, page 7


    Mrs. McCully's popular Female School commences a term of five months on Monday, January 4th. See advertisement.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, December 19, 1863, page 5


Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, December 26, 1863, page 4


    Rev. Father Blanchet informs us that he hopes to soon have organized at this place a good school for girls and young ladies, under the direction of the Sisters of Charity.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, March 26, 1864, page 7


    JACKSONVILLE FEMALE SCHOOL.--This popular institution of learning will commence a three months' term Monday, Oct. 24th, under the superintendence of Mrs. Jane M. McCully.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, October 15, 1864, page 3


    MADAM DeRoboam requests us to say that the McCully Hall has been thoroughly and substantially braced by pillars underneath, rendering the hall perfectly safe beyond a possibility of a doubt.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, December 24, 1864, page 3


    MRS. MCCULLY'S SCHOOL.--We had the pleasure of witnessing the closing exercises of this popular school on yesterday--the last day of the term. The exercises were principally in writing, declamation and composition. A colloquy by Miss Ellen Little and Miss Kate Hoffman was well executed, and would have done credit to more experienced amateurs. The compositions displayed much merit.
    A song sun in German by two charming little girls of Mr. John Muller's was one of the most pleasing performances of the occasion. The following awards of merit were made:
    Best in mathematics, Miss FLORENCE HOFFMAN--a medal; best in spelling, first class, Miss ELLEN LITTLE--a medal; best in spelling, second class, Miss LIZZA DONEGAN--a medal; best in spelling, third class, Miss AMELIA MULLER--a medal; best writing, Miss KATE HOFFMAN--gold pen; most improvement in writing, Miss ROSY SHORT--gold pen.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, January 21, 1865, page 3


School.
    Mrs. McCully will commence, on Monday next, a three months' term of her excellent school for misses and small boys. Mrs. McCully is a thoroughly competent teacher, and her school is deservedly popular.
Oregon Sentinel, Jacksonville, January 21, 1865, page 5

    Another of the persons whose names are linked with the early history of Jacksonville and the Rogue River Valley has passed away. James Cluggage McCully, [whose] death took place Monday at Fort Klamath, was a representative of a family who were well known in the pioneer town of Southern Oregon. His father, Dr. James W. McCully, and mother, Jane Mason McCully, came to Jacksonville in June, 1852. Dr. McCully at once identified himself with the progress of the town and in 1856 built the two-story brick building on Oregon Street which is now owned by the Odd Fellows. He afterward went to the Willamette Valley, where he became prominent in operating steamboat lines, and died in Salem several years ago. Mrs. McCully was prominent in the social life and activities of this place from the early days to her death in June, 1899. Her life was commemorated by many acts of generosity and her charitable disposition.--Jacksonville Sentinel.
Capital Journal, Salem, August 31, 1903, page 4


    When gold was discovered in California, we decided to come out to the coast, but it was the spring of 1851 before we were able to get under way. We started from New London, about 18 miles from Burlington, Ia. John L. Starkey and Dr. John McCully, a brother of David McCully, came with us. Dave and Asa McCully had left in '49 for California. They went back to Illinois, and in 1852 they came out to Oregon. We settled here where Woodburn now is located.
J. L. Johnson, quoted by Fred Lockley, "In Earlier Days," Oregon Daily Journal, Portland, September 9, 1914, page 6


    David McCully . . . is the father of Mrs. A. N. Gilbert, who still lives at Salem and whose husband was postmaster at Salem and later was superintendent of the Oregon penitentiary. David McCully, who, with his brother Asa, E. N. Cooke and S. T. Church, organized in 1862 the Peoples Transportation Company, to take goods by steamer up the Willamette to their store at Harrisburg, which they had founded in 1856, is such a picturesque character that he will require a separate article to chronicle his activities.
    David and Asa McCully were of Scotch-Irish ancestry and were born in New Brunswick. They inherited the fighting strain of their Scotch and Irish forebears, as those who tried to put them out of business discovered. When an attempt was made to embarrass them by refusing to carry freight to Harrisburg, they bought a small steamer, the James Clinton. A little later they secured control of the Enterprise, the Portland and the Relief. These boats were the nucleus of their fleet, which included such boats at the Reliance, Dayton, Yamhill, Elk, Rival, Senator, Skedaddle, St. Clair, Onward, Union, Alert, Active, Echo, Iris, E. D. Baker, Kiuse, Fanny Patton, Alice, Shoo Fly, E. N. Cooke, Success, Surprise and Vancouver. The combination that tried to put the McCullys out of business by refusing to carry their freight on the river found themselves put out of business, and the very boat, the Enterprise, that unloaded their goods on the river bank at Corvallis, refusing to take them on to Harrisburg, was one of the first to fall a victim and be acquired by the McCullys.
Fred Lockley, "Observations and Impressions of the Journal Man," Oregon Journal, Portland, January 2, 1922, page 10


    "My father [John D. Love] was born at Jackson, Tennessee, in 1824. My mother, whose maiden name was Mary Jane McCully, was also born in 1824. Ohio was her native state. They met and were married in 1852, and the fallowing spring they started for Oregon by ox team. Their first child, Mary Louisa, married Edward Maxson. I was the next child. John D. came next, born on December 4, 1857. Alice J. arrived December 29, 1859, and if she had delayed her coming by three days would not have qualified as an Oregon pioneer. Douglas was born February 10, 1861, and Carrie Gertrude, the last of the three children, July 26, 1864.
    "When my father took up his donation claim a mile east of this place in the fall of 1853, there was only one store here. It was not called Harrisburg then. It was Thurston, and had been named for S. R. Thurston, Oregon's delegate in Congress. They found there was another settlement here in the valley called Thurston, so they decided to name it after Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
    "When I was a girl I went to school where the Methodist church now stands. My uncles, Asa and David McCully, with Wesley W. Briggs and John Waters, built a grist mill here. The boats wouldn't deliver their freight here, so my uncles got peeved and organized the People's Transportation Company. They ran the other boats clear off the run. They employed my father. For years he served either as purser or as captain on the Echo, the Reliance or the Alice. The Alice was named for Alice McCully, my Uncle Asa's eldest daughter. Her name is Alice Crane now, and she lives in Portland. The McCullys--my mother and my uncles Ham, Asa and David--were Scotch-Irish. They didn't let anyone run over them. Uncle Asa was a strong Republican. When the Civil War broke out he put up a flag over his home. A neighbor whose sympathies were with the South tore the flag down during the night and then bragged about it. Uncle Asa hunted him up and made him buy a new flag and climb up and put the flag on the flagpole. He knew if he didn't the South would be short one sympathizer, for Uncle Asa was in deadly earnest.
    "My grandmother, Mary Capp McCully, was born at Eastport, Maine. She was Scotch. My grandfather, John McCully, was born in New Brunswick. His parents were born in Ireland. David and Asa McCully moved to Salem in 1862 to manage the People's Transportation Company, for they soon built or bought a big fleet of river boats."
Emma Frances Love, quoted by Fred Lockley, "Observations and Impressions of the Journal Man," Oregon Journal, Portland, July 11, 1922, page 10


    Mrs. A. N. Gilbert of Salem is a Forty-niner. At least, this is what she told me when I visited her recently. She said:
    "Yes, I am a Forty-niner. I was born July 4, 1849. My father was in the California gold fields at the time, though I was born in Iowa. My father was born at Sussexvale, New Brunswick, September 15, 1814. His father, John McCully, was born in Nova Scotia. When my father was 8 years old the family moved to Jefferson County, Ohio, and 22 years later they moved to Iowa. In 1849 my father, David McCully, with his brother Asa crossed the plains to California. Late that year they came back by way of the Isthmus. There were six children in my father's family, five boys and one girl. Father and his brother were restless after returning from the California gold fields. They wanted to return to the West. So in 1853 a family council was held and 40 members of the family decided to go to Oregon. Four of the family had gone west in 1849 to  spy out the land. These four were my father, his brother Asa, their brother-in-law, John Starkey, and William Scott, another brother-in-law. William Scott was murdered for his money on his way home, while crossing the Isthmus.
    "The McCullys are of Scotch stock. They are clannish. The ties of family bind very closely. That is why so many of them decided to go to Oregon in 1852. Among those in the party were the McCullys, the Starkeys, the Scotts, the Waterses, the Loves and the Reddings. My father was captain of the train. On our way across the plains my oldest brother, Joseph, who was 14 years old, was leading the mules to water. Some of the other mules had already been down to the stream and were coming back. The mule that my brother was riding became unmanageable and, whirling, tried to join the other mules. Joseph was thrown and a leg was broken. They fixed up a swinging bed in a hack and started for Fort Kearny, about 100 miles on the back trail, to secure surgical attention. Before they reached there they saw their errand would be fruitless, for gangrene had set in and my brother was suffering great agony. They told him he would probably die, so he asked to have the mules headed back for the party, so he could see his people before he died. They buried him on the plains. The next year Uncle Asa went back and put an iron marker on his grave.
    "We reached Salem, August 17, 1852. We camped just across the creek from the home of the Parrishes. My father and his brothers were mechanics. They were not only good brickmasons and tinsmiths, but they understood working in iron and could do bridge and boat building. They built the Starkey block, which is still in use here in Salem, for their brother-in-law, J. L. Starkey. It was the first brick building in Salem. I think the Griswold building was the next, and possibly the Moores building the third.
    "After looking around at Salem for a short time Father and Asa traveled up the valley until they came to a farming settlement in Linn County that they liked. Many of the settlers there had taken up 640-acre tracts as donation land claims, so that the land was all taken, but they agreed that if my father and my uncle would settle there and start a store they would reduce the size of their holdings so as to allow them to secure claims there. Father and Uncle Asa built the first house at Harrisburg and established the first store there. Harrisburg became the headquarters of the McCully interests, Sam, David, Asa, John and Hamilton McCully all settling at Harrisburg or in its immediate vicinity, as well as John Love, a relative.
    "In 1853 Asa went to Philadelphia and bought a stock of goods. The goods were shipped around the Horn, while Asa returned to Oregon overland in the summer of 1853, to bring out some blooded stock to improve the stock in Linn County. In addition to running the store at Harrisburg, my father and his brother packed pork, made flour, manufactured tinware and shipped goods to the mines. They furnished a good market for the produce of the farmers around Harrisburg, and soon became the largest shippers of produce in that part of the Willamette Valley.
    "In 1855 and 1856, when their business had become quite extensive, they were handicapped by having to freight all their goods from Corvallis to Albany by ox team. The town of Corvallis claimed to be at the head of navigation on the Willamette River. In 1855 Father arranged to ship 50 tons of merchandise from Portland to Harrisburg by water. The goods were taken from Portland to Oregon City on board the steamer Portland and from Oregon City to Harrisburg on the shallow-draft river boat Enterprise. My father was on board the boat with the goods. When the boat reached Corvallis a deputation of the merchants there came down to the wharf and served notice on Captain Jamison that if he attempted to take the goods to Harrisburg, thus making Harrisburg the head of navigation on the Willamette, they would boycott his boat and ruin his company. After prolonged discussion, Captain Jamison gave orders to dump the 50-ton shipment of my father's goods on the river bank. My father had to secure transportation by ox team from Corvallis to Harrisburg.
    "My father was like the granite hills of Scotland. When he made up his mind to do a thing, he was not to be swerved or dissuaded. He had decided to ship goods by water to Harrisburg, so he returned to Oregon City, where he purchased an interest in the James Clinton, which was being built to ply on the Yamhill River. The citizens of Eugene were very anxious to have a steamboat that would bring freight up the river as far as Eugene. They told my father they would buy $5000 worth of stock in the Clinton if he would agree to run up the river as far as Eugene. The Clinton was soon finished and was operated between Oregon City and Harrisburg, making occasional trips to Eugene. My father was still indignant at the treatment he had received from the captain of the Enterprise, so he bought the Enterprise and put it on the run with the Clinton. He then bought the Portland and the Relief, and the headquarters of the company was established in a small store on the site now occupied by the Ladd & Bush bank. The other transportation men decided to put the McCullys out of business, so in 1860 they formed a merger of the various rival lines on the Lower Willamette and on the Columbia under the name of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company. My father and his associates saw that it was a life-and-death fight. My father took the matter up with E. N. Cooke and S. P. Church, both prominent and able men, residents of Salem. My father and his brothers, when they were young men, had traveled all over the country selling Seth Thomas clocks. Later they had acquired the state rights for Iowa to manufacture and sell the Champion fanning mill. This business experience stood them in good stead now. They had added to their various industries at Harrisburg not only the manufacturing of flour and the packing of pork, but a furniture factory, a tin shop and a plant where fanning mills were manufactured. It was vital to their growth that they maintain their transportation interest on the river. S. T. Church had become a partner with my father and his brothers in the business at Harrisburg and had charge of the sale of goods to the mines. E. N. Cooke was the first state treasurer of Oregon. He had been a merchant in Ohio and he owned a store at Salem. Later the firm name became Cooke, McCully & Co. My father, Asa McCully, Cooke and Church organized the People's Transportation Company to fight their powerful rival, the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, and they waged an aggressive and successful fight."
Oregon Journal, Portland, May 23, 1923, page 8


    "My maiden name was Estella McCully," said Mrs. A. N. Gilbert when I visited her recently at her home in Salem. "I came to Salem in 1852, when I was 3 years old. My father, David McCully, with his brothers and other kinfolks, started the town of Harrisburg. In 1859 my father and his brother-in-law, J. L. Starkey, bought out Cohn & Fish, a general merchandise firm in Salem. Father moved to Salem to keep in closer touch with his transportation interests, for in 1855 he had started, in a modest way, to operate steamers on the Willamette River from Portland to Harrisburg. In 1862, with his brother Asa and E. N. Cooke and Stephen T. Church, he organized the People's Transportation Company. Their plan of operation was to sell stock to all of the merchants located in the small towns between Portland and Harrisburg, and to favor stockholders in the shipment of goods by giving them reasonable rates and prompt service. The result was that the People's Transportation Company not only became immediately popular but every stockholder became a booster for it and solicited business for it. One of the first things they did was to construct a basin at the falls of the Willamette, at Oregon City, which cost $135,000. This obviated the necessity of portaging the goods around the falls, for by means of the basin the upper river boats and lower river boats could meet in the basin and transfer their cargoes from boat to boat. This really gave the People's Transportation Company a monopoly of the upper Willamette River traffic.
    "The Oregon Steam Navigation Company kept up an aggressive fight against the People's Transportation Company, for it wanted to eliminate all rivals in river transportation. The People's Transportation Company decided to carry the war into the enemy's country. It built a fast steamer, the E. D. Baker, which it put on the run from Portland to the Cascades. It built the Iris for the run from the Cascades to The Dalles, and put the Kiuse on the upper river run, running up the Snake River to Lewiston. This brought matters to a head. W. S. Ladd called the two companies into conference and a compromise was effected whereby the People's Transportation Company turned over its boats on the Columbia River and the Snake River to the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, thus giving it the monopoly of the Columbia River, while the People's Transportation Company was given undisputed sway on the Willamette River. This gave it the business between Portland and Oregon City, which heretofore it had not controlled.
    "David McCully was president of the P.T. Company at that time. J. D. Biles had built the E. D. Baker and it proved to be faster than any of the O.S.N. boats and this was one of the contributing causes of the willingness of the O.S.N. Company to come to terms. The Fanny Patton was soon added to the fleet of the P.T. Company and proved a very popular boat. My father had started his transportation company with one small boat, the James Clinton, but within a few years he had a fleet of 30 boats operating on the river. Among the best known were the Relief, Reliance, Yamhill, Portland, Rival, Alert, Active, Skedaddle, Senator, Shoofly, St. Clair, Onward, Union, Echo, Iris, E. N. Cooke, E. D. Baker, Fanny Patton, Surprise, Vancouver and some others. Starting with an investment of a few thousand dollars, it increased to over $1,000,000 and at times the earnings exceeded $1000 a day. Handling the freight for such firms as Allen & Lewis, Corbett & Macleay, the Willamette Woolen Mills Company, the Salem Flouring Mills Company, Everding & Beebe and other firms of such magnitude proved very profitable.
    "T. McF. Patton, later a prominent book dealer in Salem, was purser on the Iris in 1863. Among the well-known steamboat captains of the P.T. Company were Joseph Kellogg, 'Nat' Lane, 'Bas' Miller, L. E. Pratt, J. D. Miller, C. W. Pope, 'Eph' Baughman, Theo Wygant, J. C. Apperson, E. M. White, George Jerome, Leonard White and others.
    "When Ben Holladay invaded the Willamette Valley with his railroad in 1871 the P.T. Company sold out its transportation interests to him. Mr. Church died in 1869 and in 1881 Mr. Cooke died. My uncle, Asa McCully, died in 1881, while my father, David McCully, died in 1906, at the age of 93.
    "My father was married May 7, 1840, to Mary N. Scott, who was born in Ohio, October 16, 1821. Mother died in Salem, November 21, 1895. Their first child, Mary Jane, married John Creighton. Mr. Creighton freighted in the early days from Umatilla Landing to the Boise Basin. Union was one of his stations, where he raised hay in the '60s. In the early '70s he took up extensive holdings in Wallowa County. My brother John was also a pioneer of Union County and was one of the early-day freighters there. I was the next child and was born July 4, 1849. My brother Alfred became a steamboat engineer and ran on the Gray Eagle. He is now retired and lives on his farm near Butteville. Frank, who was born in 1859, went to Wallowa County when he was 19 and has a store there and raises stock.
    "One day I went to a meeting of the sewing society at Mrs. Thatcher's house. Jim Glover, who later founded the city of Spokane, was boarding there. He brought a young man who had just come to Salem to Mrs. Thatcher's house as a boarder. When I met him I did not know that I was meeting my future husband. His name was A. N. Gilbert. This was in 1866. Mr. Gilbert had served throughout the Civil War in Company E, 12th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He got a job as a clerk in John G. Wright's grocery in Salem shortly after he came here. Later he went in with his brother, John Gilbert, in the shoe business. We were married April 27, 1871, so we celebrated our fifty-second wedding anniversary a few days ago. Ray Gilbert, our oldest boy, is in the grocery business here., Warren is staying with us, after having lived in Denver many years, where he was a cartoonist. Agnes, now Mrs. B. O. Shucking, also lives in Salem. My husband was born at Grandview, Ill., March 18, 1840. After having charge of the shoe department of the penitentiary for some time Mr. Gilbert went into the grocery business with my father, David McCully. Later, my husband bought out my father's interest in the store. He employed a young man from Polk County, 19 years old, named I. L. Patterson, as a clerk. Some time later he took this young man in as a partner and the firm name became Gilbert & Patterson. My husband and Mr. Patterson are still associated in the orchard business and the farm at Eola. At the time John Wanamaker was postmaster general my husband served as postmaster of Salem. Later he was appointed superintendent of the Oregon state penitentiary."
Oregon Journal, Portland, May 24, 1923, page 12


    When I lived in Salem David McCully lived a few blocks from me, and I became well acquainted with him. He was born in New Brunswick on September 15, 1814 . His father, John McCully, was born in Nova Scotia, of sturdy Scotch stock. When David McCully was eight years old his parents moved to Ohio. After the death of David McCully's father his mother married John McPherson. They moved to Iowa in 1844, from which point they started across the plains for Oregon. In 1849 David McCully and his brother Asa went by ox team to California. Returning to Henry County, Iowa, in the winter of 1849, they began closing up affairs preparatory to moving to Oregon. David McCully and his brothers moved down the Willamette Valley and built the first house and operated the first store in Harrisburg. In 1859 David McCully and his brother-in-law, J. I. Starkey, bought a store in Salem. The following year Mr. Starkey sold his interest to Walt Smith. The firm of Smith & McCully was in business till 1864, when Mr. McCully sold part of his interest in the store and started the People's Transportation Company, operating boats on the Columbia and Willamette rivers. Stephen Coffin was the first president. The company became involved in financial difficulties, which Mr. McCully was able to straighten out. He succeeded Stephen Coffin as president, and later resigned in favor of his brother Asa. No more aggressive man was ever engaged in river transportation in the West than David McCully, for he took a losing business and built it into one that was successful and profitable. After selling out his interest in the People's Transportation Company he bought a store in Salem and later secured an interest in the bank and the water works system at Joseph, Or. He was married to Mary M. Scott on May 7, 1840. Mrs. McCully died in Salem on November 21, 1895. Their first child, Mary Jane, married John Creighton, an old-time Indian fighter and pioneer of Wallowa County. Another daughter, Estella, married A. N. Gilbert of Salem. For many years Mr. Gilbert was a partner of I. L. Patterson, Republican candidate for governor, in a grocery store at Salem. Mr. Gilbert also served as superintendent of the penitentiary and postmaster of Salem. Mr. McCully's son John lived in Union County for some years. Alfred took to the river and became an engineer on the Gray Eagle and other boats. Frank for many years has been a well-known banker and stockman at Joseph, in Wallowa County.
Fred Lockley, "Impressions and Observations of the Journal Man," Oregon Journal, Portland, July 20, 1926, page 12


    Mrs. Susan P. Angell, "Queen Mother" of Oregon, who lives with her son, Homer Angell, at No. 794 Upper Drive, celebrated her 94th birthday on the 12th of last May. When I interviewed her recently, she said:
    "With my husband and my baby girl, Sarah Margaret, now Mrs. Sarah N. Campbell of The Dalles, and with my brother Ben Yeomans, I came across the plains to Oregon in 1852. I was 20 years old at the time we came in the wagon train of which David McCully was captain.
    "The McCully boys were good boys. The coming of the McCullys to Oregon was almost like one of the old-time tribal migrations, for, in addition to Dave and his family, his mother and his brothers, Asa, Sam and Ham, and various other relatives, were in the wagon train. When you travel with people for six months across the plains, seeing them under all sorts of conditions, you get to know them pretty well. Some folks improve upon acquaintance; others don't. The McCullys were the kind of folks that wore well."
Fred Lockley, "Impressions and Observations of the Journal Man," Oregon Journal, Portland, July 26, 1926, page 8


    "Yes, I was born right here in Jacksonville," said Issie McCully, when I interviewed her recently at her home in the one-time metropolis of Southern Oregon. "I was born on December 16, 1859. My sister and I were named for our aunt. My aunt's name was Mary Bell, so my sister was named Mary Bell, and I was named for my aunt's pen-name, Issie. I moved into this house when I was a year and a half old and I have lived here ever since. My father, Dr. John W. McCully, was born in Nova Scotia. My mother, whose maiden name was Jane Mason, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Mother came to the United States when she was 7 years old. My grandfather, John McCully, for whom my father was named, was born in Nova Scotia in 1785. He was married in Maine to Mary Kopp, who was born at Eastport, Maine, in 1788. In 1822 Grandfather with his family  moved to Ohio, where he died in 1830. Years later my grandmother married John McPherson. They crossed the plains to Oregon and she died in Linn County in 1872.
    "My two uncles, David and Asa McCully, went to California in 1849, where they mined till the late fall of '49, when they returned to Iowa. In the spring of 1852 my uncles, David and Asa McCully, crossed the plains and arrived at Salem on August 17. From Salem they went on up the Willamette Valley to what is now Harrisburg. They put up the first house in Harrisburg and started a store there.
    "My father and mother had preceded Uncle David and Uncle Asa to Salem. Father and Mother crossed the plains in 1851 and Mother taught school at Salem that winter. Among her pupils were the Belt girls, one of whom married Mr. Heulat, another Mr. Jordan, and Myra married George H. Burnett, who for many years was a member of the Oregon supreme court. The mother of Ed Eds, former city recorder of Salem, was also a pupil of my mother. When gold was discovered here in Jacksonville my father and mother came down here and were among the first permanent settlers. My brother, James Clugage McCully, was the first white child born in Jacksonville. He was born here August 7, 1852. My brother was named after James Clugage, who with J. R. Poole discovered Rich Gulch here early in January, 1852. The first log cabin to be put up here was built by W. W. Fowler in March, 1852. Lumber was whipsawed from the timber growing on the place and sold at $250 a thousand. When my father and mother moved here practically the whole population consisted of men, and mostly young men at that. For some time there were only three women in Jacksonville--my mother, Mrs. Lawless and Mrs. Napoleon Evans.
    "My brother Jim was the oldest child in our family. Then came my sister, Mary Bell, and I was the third and last child. When Father and Mother came across the plains, in 1851, it was their wedding trip, for they were married just before starting across the plains. My father was born on May 22, 1821, and moved to Ohio when he was a year old. He practiced his profession as a physician here in Jacksonville from 1852 to 1862, at which time he went to the newly discovered mines in Idaho, and later practiced in the mining camps of Montana. From 1868 to 1878 my father served as a purser for the People's Transportation Company steamers, which were owned and operated by his brothers, David and Asa McCully. Father moved to Joseph, on the shores of Wallowa Lake, in the late '70s. Father was a member of the last territorial legislature. Father built the first brick building in Jacksonville.
    "In 1854 my father owned a bakery here in Jacksonville. Other firms here were Maury & Davis, Appler & Kenny, Birdseye & Ettinger, Sam Goldstein, Little & Westgate, Fowler & Davis, Wells & Friedlander, J. Brunner, John Anderson, Peter Britt, who had a daguerreotype gallery, and, of course, there were saloons, livery stables, blacksmith shops and other establishments.
    "The first teacher I went to was Lizzie Clayton. In 1876 I went to Willamette University. Professor T. M. Gatch was president of the university then. I took the diphtheria and had to come back to Jacksonville. My brother Jim and my sister Molly both attended Willamette University in the early '70s. They boarded at the home of Ben Simpson, so they became well acquainted with Sam Simpson, the poet, and his brother Sylvester.
    "In 1874, when they were attending Willamette University, the faculty consisted of President T. M. Gatch, Professor L. J. Powell, Professor Thomas H. Crawford, Mary M. Adams, Ellen J. Chamberlin, Lizzie T. Boise and Gertrude M. Miller. The Rev. Plutarch S. Knight gave occasional lectures, as did Dr. Thomas Condon, the state geologist.
    "My mother, Mrs. Jane McCully, died June 22, 1899, at the age of 75 years. My sister Mary Bell, or Molly, as we called her, married Professor J. W. Merritt, one of the best teachers that ever came to Southern Oregon. He used to give lessons after school to B. B. Beekman, now a lawyer in Portland, who was preparing to enter the state university. He also gave private lessons to Frank Huffer, who also attended the state university, now an attorney at Seattle.
    "My father had several brothers, all of whom became well known here--Sam, David, Asa and Ham. His sister, Mary Jane, married John Love. My father died in 1889 at the age of 67. My uncle Asa was born in 1818 and as a young man made fanning mills to clean grain. He built the first house in Harrisburg and moved to Salem in 1863. He represented Linn County in the Oregon legislature in 1860. He was president of the People's Transportation Company in 1864. His daughter, Linnie, married A. B. Crossman, for some years postmaster at Portland."
Oregon Journal, Portland, October 20, 1930, page 8


    "My father and his brothers started the town of Harrisburg," said J. D. McCully when I interviewed him recently in Salem. "I was born there, February 2, 1856. My father, Asa A. McCully, was born at St. John's, New Brunswick, on January 31, 1818. My mother's maiden name was Hannah K. Waters. She was born in Ashtabula, Ohio. My mother was one of a family of 13 children. She had 12 brothers. My father was one of six children. He had four brothers and one sister.
    "My father's father, John McCully, was born in Nova Scotia in 1785 and married a girl from the state of Maine who was born at Eastport in 1788. In 1822 my grandfather with his children moved to Ohio. My grandmother, Mary Kopp McCully, was left a widow in 1830 and later married John McPherson. They moved to Iowa in 1844 and from there made the trip across the plains to the Willamette Valley.
    "My father's oldest brother was Samuel McCully. David, the next brother, was born at Sussexville, New Brunswick, September 15, 1814. My father was born four years later. Then came Dr. John W. McCully, whose daughter, Issie, lives at Jacksonville, where she has made her home for more than 70 years. William H. McCully was the next child.
    "My uncle David and my father made fanning mills when they were young men and traveled through Ohio and Iowa selling these mills. They also sold Seth Thomas clocks. They started a general merchandise store at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, in 1844. In 1849 they started overland for California. My uncle David took his oldest boy along. This boy had his leg broken from a mule kicking him while on the plains and died as a result of the injury. If you will ask Mrs. A. N. Gilbert she can tell you all about it. She is Uncle David's daughter and has lived here in Salem for more than 70 years.
    "My father and Uncle David returned to Iowa in 1850. In 1852 my uncle Samuel, my uncle David and my father came across the plains to Oregon. My uncle Dr. J. W. McCully had come to Oregon the year before. They planned to take up claims near Salem, but as they couldn't get claims adjoining they drove on up the valley and took claims on the Willamette River at what is now Harrisburg. My uncle David and my father started a store, which became the nucleus of the town. They had no idea of going into the transportation business but were more or less forced into it. They shipped 30 tons of freight from Portland on the steamer Portland in 1855. At the falls the goods were transferred to the Enterprise with the understanding that they were to be taken to Harrisburg, but when the Enterprise arrived at Corvallis the merchants there told Captain Jamieson that if he helped start a town further up the river they would refuse to ship any more goods on his boat. They also told him they wanted it distinctly understood that Corvallis was the head of navigation on the Willamette and that if he expected any more business from them he would have to dump McCully's goods on the river bank. Captain Jamieson did so and my father and my uncle were compelled to haul the goods from Corvallis to Harrisburg by ox team. They decided not to be caught in this kind of a trap again, so they bought for $3000 the steamer James Clinton, which had been built at Canemah by Captain Cassidy, Gibson and Cochran. The Clinton ran between Canemah and Eugene.
    "My father, when he and his brothers settled at Harrisburg, went back to Philadelphia to buy a stock of goods. He bought this stock in 1853, so I suppose you can say that the town of Harrisburg started when my father and uncle David put up a store and began selling goods in 1853.
    "In 1862 my uncle David and my father, with S. D. Church, E. N. Cook, E. W. Baughman, J. D. Biles and Stephen Coffin, one of the townsite proprietors of Portland, organized the People's Transportation Company. They sold stock to farmers and merchants along the river. In all there were 65 stockholders. In addition to the James Clinton they bought the Relief and the Enterprise. Stephen Coffin was the first president. Before long my uncle and my father, who were to of the directors of the company, suggested that they enter business on the Columbia River, so they built the steamer E. D. Baker, which ran from Portland to the Cascades. They used the Iris in the middle river and the steamer Kiuse above The Dalles. The E. D. Baker could beat the boats owned by the Oregon Steam Navigation Company on the run between the Cascades and Portland.
    "At about this time my Uncle David McCully was elected president, and my father-in-law, T. McF. Patton, secretary, and my uncle David McCully, E. N. Cook, S. T. Church, J. D. Biles, J. S. Parrish and T. McF. Patton directors.
    "William S. Ladd, representing the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, offered to trade the steamers Onward, Rival and Surprise, which were plying on the Willamette, for the Iris and the Kiuse and to give the People's Transportation Company a bonus of $10,000 if they would confine their transportation activities to the Willamette River and not fight the Oregon Steam Navigation Company on the Columbia. For the next 10 years the Steam Navigation Company had the monopoly of business on the Columbia and the People's Transportation Company dominated the Willamette.
    "My father, my uncle and the others took over the steamer Senator, and they also operated the Enterprise, the Fanny Patton, the Albany, the E. N. Cook, the Alice, the Active, the Alert, the Echo, the Success and the Onward. When Ben Holladay began operating in Oregon the People's Transportation Company sold their interest to him."
Oregon Journal, Portland, August 4, 1931, page 8


    "I was born on my father's old farm, a mile from Harrisburg," said Alice Love Belmont when I interviewed her recently in Harrisburg. "My father, John D. Love, came across the plains in 1853. Father was born in Tennessee. My mother's maiden name was Mary Jane McCully. Mother's brother, A. A. McCully, was captain of a wagon train in 1853. He had crossed the plains in 1849 but had gone back to purchase machinery: so, having made the trip across the plains once, he was elected captain. My mother's brothers. David McCully and Asa McCully, crossed the plains to California in 1849 and returned by way of the Isthmus of Panama that winter. In 1852 they took their families with them and crossed the plains again. My uncle David and my uncle Asa put up the first house in what is now Harrisburg. They also put up and ran the first store here. In 1858 they took up 640 acres of land near here. In 1859 they moved to Salem, where for many years they were officers of the People's Transportation Company, which they had organized.
    "My father, John D. Love, gave the land for the depot here in Harrisburg. My father died in 1871, the year the Southern Pacific railroad came through Harrisburg."
Fred Lockley, "Impressions and Observations of the Journal Man," Oregon Journal, Portland, June 6, 1932, page 8